Something has been fixed. I've been able to for the first time since signing up in august download at line speed off-peak. 34 gig down in the last two nights off-peak.
Steam today has been crap though. Considering ss has the steam catalog on their servers I think faster than 200KB/s would be possible.

I have seen my download queue dropping, but that may be the dearth of new content at the moment, the fact that I am not FTPing down at the same time because my trial of flashfxp is run out and I haven't replaced it with something else, or because it is actually better, have not looked if I am still having connections spoofed closed or reset, or even if I am able to open a VNC at all unlike in the past.

I've noticed an increase in speed after this post was started and had been up for awhile and gained alot of complaints...for a week, then speeds dropped back to almost as pathetic as they were before (10kb/s more than previous) considering when it was bad before that it was at 30kb/s, on a full speed both ways plan thats not cheap, on a line I know can do much much more thats pretty damn pathetic.

my routers stats show my line in good shape, and I can walk outside to my mailbox and see the exchange's cover :/

I know someone that changed ISP because it was cheaper and never asked about the cap at all because they never checked it and got pinged massive overage for only about 8 gigs. Thankfully that ISP now has more sane overage charges than it did back then.